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X-WR-CALNAME:Musicology Symposium: Fanny Gribenski (New York University)
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DESCRIPTION:"The Elephant in the Piano: Music\, Ecology\, Empire"\n\nAround
  the turn of the twentieth century\, the piano was ubiquitous across the w
 orld and diverse segments of societies. Drawing on recent approaches to th
 e global circulation of the instrument\, my talk expands these discussions
  by tracing the connections embedded in the piano’s materials—specific
 ally ivory\, one of the prime materials for the construction of piano keyb
 oards. I show that this commodity mediated a series of encounters between 
 environment and music cultures\, as well as between East Africa\, Europe\,
  and the United States. From the warehouses of European and American trade
 rs in Zanzibar to ivory auction houses at London and Antwerp\, and from th
 ese sites to US keyboard factories and consumers’ homes\, pianos’ ivor
 y enabled differentiated experiences of a globalizing world\, revealing hi
 therto unexamined entanglements between music\, ecology\, and empire. All 
 in all\, my talk shows the value of material approaches to instruments for
  a “remapping” of music and sound studies\, and the reciprocal benefit
  of global and postcolonial perspectives for eco-musicological conversatio
 ns.\n\nFanny Gribenski is Assistant Professor of Music at New York Univers
 ity. She is the author of L’Église comme lieu de concert (2019) and Tun
 ing the World (2023). Her current research examines the relations between 
 musical instruments\, ecology\, and empire. Recent articles have appeared 
 in Past and Present\, ISIS\, Journal of Musicology\, Nineteenth-Century Mu
 sic\, Sound Studies\, History of the Humanities\, Revue d’Anthropologie 
 des Connaissances\, and the Revue de musicologie. She is currently co-edit
 ing two books: Unsound Supplies: Noisy Matter and the Making of Modern Sou
 ndscapes (with Viktoria Tkaczyk and David Pantalony)\, and New Methods and
  New Challenges in Empirical Musicology (with Clément Canonne).
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LOCATION:Sibley Music Library\, Conference Room 404
SUMMARY:Musicology Symposium: Fanny Gribenski (New York University)
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 -gribenski-new-york-university
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Talks
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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